† † † Wafflebum's summer of Pubes † † †

Runescape · Apr 24, 2015

Plants are looking awesome...what lights and ferts are you using?

grispa72 · Apr 25, 2015

FreeportBum said:
Hi Paolo thank you. I fooled around with a few different ways of rooting.The fastest way they rooted was from dipping the cutting into a root hormone gel/cloning gel and then placed into tap water on the windowsill. Took about 8 days to see roots. With my yellow manzano I tried the same technique only without the root hormone gel just plain tap water and they rooted just fine but took longer to see roots at over two weeks. Soil did not work as well as just plain tap water. I had much better results with cooler temps when cloning pubes around 65F. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the infos. Now I'll search the rooting gel for cloning my Rocoto De Seda, the only one Rocoto I got from almost 10 seeds.

Paolo

FreeportBum · Apr 26, 2015

Runescape said:
Plants are looking awesome...what lights and ferts are you using?

Thank you. I'm using t5 and dual arc hid lighting. I haven't used any ferts yet, just what's in the soil. I water with mycor twice a week and that's about it.

grantmichaels · May 6, 2015

was poking around, and that's a nice looking rocopica (i think it was called that) ...

FreeportBum · May 6, 2015

thanks man, yeah the rocopica's are really cool so far. The one with white flowers is the most pungent pepper plant I've come across. Just brushing against it releases this awesome pepper aroma, much stronger then any of my other pubescens. I will get some more pics up here soon. I started to harden plants off here, still have to bring them in at night but the days are getting better. :cheers:

grantmichaels · May 6, 2015

FreeportBum said:
thanks man, yeah the rocopica's are really cool so far. The one with white flowers is the most pungent pepper plant I've come across. Just brushing against it releases this awesome pepper aroma, much stronger then any of my other pubescens. I will get some more pics up here soon. I started to harden plants off here, still have to bring them in at night but the days are getting better.

Yeah, I noted the row behind the food pics =) ...

ronniedeb · May 9, 2015

Plants and food look great!

grantmichaels · May 11, 2015

Maple sizzurp brewing, I guess ...

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FreeportBum · May 13, 2015

quick update. pics taken this morning- all peppers hardened off for the most part. may start planting this weekend. :dance:

Put up a new fence yesterday around the pepper patch-

garlic and asparagus

more garlic

one of my hop plants growing up the chicken run. hard to believe I chopped this in half just a couple weeks ago

rocopica "white"

happy growing everyone

JoynersHotPeppers · May 13, 2015

Looks fantastic!

FreeportBum · May 13, 2015

JoynersHotPeppers said:
Looks fantastic!

Thanks man. you may see some venison dishes from me if the damn deer don't stay out of the pepper patch this year

tctenten · May 13, 2015

Everything looks great. Very picturesque.

JoynersHotPeppers · May 13, 2015

FreeportBum said:
Thanks man. you may see some venison dishes from me if the damn deer don't stay out of the pepper patch this year

Where you live, I'll come up and help you

D3monic · May 13, 2015

Looking great, nice job on the fencing!

stickman · May 17, 2015

Have things warmed up enough for you to plant outside after the frost we had mid-week? Love the look of your pepper garden this year... is the fence for 2-legged or 4-legged vermin?

FreeportBum · May 17, 2015

stickman said:
Have things warmed up enough for you to plant outside after the frost we had mid-week? Love the look of your pepper garden this year... is the fence for 2-legged or 4-legged vermin?

Still a little early but the peppers are on there 3rd night outside. They are hardened off from the sun but I've been bringing them in at night. I potted up 15 plants today into 8 and 10 gallon pots and I think will start putting the rest of the peppers in the ground tomorrow, hope it doesn't come back to bite me in the ass. Fence is for skunks and deer. I put barbed wire around the top after the pic was taken. All the best

FreeportBum · May 19, 2015

some random pics from this morning in the rain!!!! :party:

First thing I'm gonna do when all the peppers are in the ground is stain the deck

start with this pic cause I'm super stoked- last spring and fall a couple of you may remember I spent a bunch of time felling trees and inoculating with different strains of shiitake mushroom. Well I have my first sign of fungi! strain is Miss happiness-

My little breeding project "pallet patch" in 8 gallons. pink tiger,caramel moruga,peach bhut SS,chocolate bubblegum, 7 pod orange x

chocolate BBG7

Aji Largo- C.pubescens setting pods

So far my favorite pubescens variety as far as growth- CAP 217 I have one more in a 10 gallon, these will go in the ground

hot rod serrano in a 10 gal. have another in the garden.

CAP 455 these plants are awesome def. will grow again next year. They are in 3 gallons right now but going in the garden. over 3ft already and super strong stems

First row of peppers in the garden. Hot rod serrano, serrano tempiqueno, Nocturne, Pimento Piquillo

nocturne flower-

Nocturne plant-

Pimento piquillo-

Can I get a bump?

grantmichaels · May 19, 2015

BUMP ... sweet.

FreeportBum · May 19, 2015

Thanks Mate^^

Rocoto # 2 from lima market that I took clones off of a couple weeks ago with nice new growth-

in ground hot rod serrano-

some random pics of the local flora that can be found around the pepper patch-

more pics to come later- happy growing everyone- :cheers:

grantmichaels · May 19, 2015

The only place that looks that lush here is the botanical gardens, well, and the better golf courses ...

Cheers!